Microsoft Teams with Massachusetts to Fight Spammers

“On Wednesday, Microsoft announced that it was working with the state of Massachusetts to stop one of the world’s largest spam rings, which was working out of the Boston area. The civil complaint resulted in a state judge ordering the shutdown of spam operation, which had been generating millions of unsolicited spam messages each month.

“We applaud [Massachusetts] Attorney General [Tom] Reilly for his strong leadership and sustained anti-spam efforts because spam is not just annoying, in this case, it’s illegal,” says Microsoft senior vice president and general counsel Brad Smith. “Spam can be devious, intentionally deceptive and is sometimes loaded with either viruses that crash computers or trickery designed to get you to give up your personal information.”

Who says Microsoft is all bad? Kudos to them.. ANYTHING to stop spam. Read about it at Windows IT Pro.